Southern California High Tech Event Calendar

Intercept 1961 - The Birth of the Soviet Missile Defense. IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society Chapter, Dr. Mike Gruntman (USC) will introduce us to the events that led to the first nonnuclear intercepts of long-range ballistic missile warheads in 1961 and will describe the technical characteristics of early air and missile defense systems. We will learn about how the Soviet Missile Defense program came to exist and first attacks it intercepted. See http://www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-02-aes